Dear Twinc:

I reported what Sungenis himself says he believes and admits -- that the earth does not rotate, that the sun and planets revolve around the earth, and, that he asserts that the Bible proves his notion. He calls himself an "agnostic" concerning the Moon landing.

This is a crackpot by definition.

While most of what is on his website is perfectly okay, he seems at times to lend himself to the methodologies of the ultra-traditionalists. Ultra-traditionalism is actually anti-traditional as it asserts its own interpretations above the Church. His nonsense about geocentricism and his assertions about creation and evolution are two of those instances. As I mentioned in the previous post a good Catholic can believe or not believe in evolution as long as the three provisos of Pope John Paul II are maintained.

As for the papal documents on evolution, Sungenis uses the ultra-traditionalist method to interpret them apart from how the Church interprets them. We must remember that the official interpreter of the Bible and the Church's own documents is the Church, not Sungenis, or you, or me.

Thus, this man is not credible in my opinion.

I agree with Alec MacAndrew (Ph.D. in physics) in his review of Sungenis:

Geocentrism is either wrong or meaningless depending on whether you are working in Newtonian mechanics or [General Relativity]. A belief in geocentrism doesn't harm one's ability to get to heaven any more than a belief in young-earth creationism, a literal belief in Noah's flood or a belief in Santa Claus or pink unicorns (except to the extent that we suppress our reason, we are suppressing one of the important faculties that distinguishes us from other animals).

But neither is holding to the plain error of geocentrism any help to the faithful. Frankly, most people don't care. The majority of people who come across Robert’s bunkum will see it as that. But since Robert represents himself as a master apologist for the [Catholic Church], then it's the [Catholic Church] that gets smeared with the buffoonery. It's certain that Robert causes scandal and damages the Church’s reputation amongst the faithful and unbelievers because of his insistence on this scientifically wrong and theologically unimportant point. It is appalling science, poor apologetics, and abysmal evangelism.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary